Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Nacirema
This story we went over in class was very interesting to me because not only did the author make this story about our society, he also spelled american backwards and made that the story title, all to get his point across. The story was so simple but very thoughtful. I had no idea he was talking about the society in which I associate myself with until the end of the story. I think its amazing and the author was a genius in the world of literature for writing this. It made me think the people in the story were weird and it was my society in which he was talking. It was kind of funny that he tricked me into judging my own society.
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I know what you mean. I'm pretty sure, though that if someone where to tell the story a century ago of how people lived today in America, the audience would be shocked and appauld!!!
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